Archive for July, 2007

La France, terre d’accueil

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Un graphique intéressant, trouvé sur le blog de Jean-Marc Manach (le journaliste qui a interviewé Samuel Hocevar aux RMLL pour Le Monde): Je sais pas vous, mais je trouve ça assez triste, moi, tous ces gens prêts à énormément de sacrifices pour venir dans notre pays, qu’on rejette comme de la merde. A propos, avez-vous [...]

Collaborative Maintenance

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Stefano Zacchiroli blogs his thoughts about collaborative maintenance. He identifies two arguments/religions about it: it is good because duties are shared among co-maintainers it is bad because no one feels responsible for the co-maintained packages And he says he stand for the first one. I’m not sure that those two positions really contradict. Sure, collaborative [...]

Easy migration of a service to another, totally different host with iptables

Monday, July 9th, 2007

I’m tired of googling for this every time I need it, so I’m blogging about it. Q: How can one redirect all connections to hostA:portA to hostB:portB, where hostA and hostB and in totally different parts of the Internet? A: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward $IPT -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp –dport portA -j DNAT [...]

How do archive rebuilds and piuparts tests on Grid’5000 work?

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

With the development of rebuildd and the fact that several people are interested in re-using my scripts, I feel the need to explain how this stuff works. Grid’5000 First, Grid’5000 is a research platform used to study computer grids. It’s not really a grid (it doesn’t use all the classic grid middleware such as Globus). [...]